--- title: Wait, what did the Fox say to that? — Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgeh… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the Fox say to that? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/396-pg21-part17/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgeh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/396-pg21-part17/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus… Wait, what did the Fox say to that? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do, say · **To what, where:** Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/396-pg21-part17/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t5:1 # text = Wait, what did the Fox say to that? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | | the Fox | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | to that | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to that=Experiencer clause=Topic | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} "Yes" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t5:o1:1 # text = "Yes" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} "By no means" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t5:o2:1 # text = "By no means" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 obl _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | by no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} "Maybe another time" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t5:o3:1 # text = "Maybe another time" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} "Oh, very well" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t5:o4:1 # text = "Oh, very well" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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